Dear RIPE List, to reply to Randy's question in a round-about way: On 03/02/2024 20:44, Randy Bush wrote:
vesna or other fosdem attendees, did you look in on the junior track?
group of topics that "juniors" are busy with these days are: climate justice & environmental sustainability *in tech*... because: “No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076 You can see that from the focus of upcoming academic events: 7. March: Willem De Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) : "Traces of Power" : https://top.permacomputing.net 21-22. March: Royal Science Academy (KNAW) (Amsterdam) : "Sustainable Digitalisation in Europe: Focus on data infrastructures and cloud computing" https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/2024/03/sustainable-digitalisation-in-eur... 18-19. June (Online) Tenth Workshop on "Computing within Limits" https://computingwithinlimits.org/2024/ ^^^ Call for papers & Local Hubs is open till 15th March! More events, that I already posted to RACI list (Academic Cooperation) https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/raci-list/2024-February/000276.html https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/raci-list/2024-February/000279.html Our industry is also busy with these topics: * Via Chris Adams: report on "Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in the EU" (2024-02-16) https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135926 (by European Commission's Joint Research Centre) "It gives some good analysis of the various data sources, and how they were collected. Page 27 is a really information dense, but helpful chart - showing datacenter use side by side with networks, as well as the share that these make up of national energy use." * Via Rudolf van der Berg: GSMA just published a report on how telcos are doing with regards to Net Zero goals "2024: State of the Industry on Climate Action" https://www.gsma.com/betterfuture/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mobile-Net-Zero... My favourite quote: "Increasing the circularity of mobile phones and network equipment is critical to reducing value chain emissions. " "Climate action" (#) is also known as SDG13, and it was mentioned in: ** Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) et.al paper "The central role of climate action in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47746-w. ** & in the talk at ICANN's EURALO Roundtable meeting on "Internet Governance for Sustainable Development Goals" in February https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=303202361 Therefore, any activity for educating / attracting "next generation" of RIPE participants should be including topics of climate action. Regards, Vesna (#) https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13 -- Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/